Huronia XVI- The Miracle on 10th Street

         This is another in my Huronia series;this discusses Grey County.The two largest towns in Grey county are Owen Sound and Hanover.Huronia XV  talked about Owen Sound and this one talks about Hanover. And of course the main street in Hanover is called 10th street.Hanover is in the southern part of Grey county.It was first settled in 1832  and as usual had a lumber and feed mill. It sits on the Saugeen river which is about 150 kilometres long and flows into Lake Huron at Southampton.The town grew very slowly until 2000.And between 2001 and 2011 it grew from 6900 to 7600.The population sign in Hanover shows a population of 7650 but it hasn't been changed for about six years.This blog estimates the population at about 25,000.
          A new kind of Huronia Blog
   Most of my Huronia blogs are based on me giving suggestions on possible improvements to towns that I visit in Huronia.But this one shows the changes that have been made that I noticed rather than suggested.Hanover has an old part that hasn't changed much in many decades;it is the same old Hanover.But there has been new construction that has been made in the last five or six years.It looks like the first change was a new Mcdonald's restaurant and maybe a new A and W restaurant.Possibly the Independent food store space was expanded to become a plaza but there were no stores in the plaza.Then stores were added all around this basic structure and the plaza filled in with newer popular stores.Perhaps a year later the Canadian Tire plaza was built.Lastly the Walmart plaza was built.Now there is a whole new south end of Hanover.And the population has increased to match the new construction.
     Once the main plazas were filled and solid "anchors" put in the plazas there were some "infills".Wightman Electronics started up in the A and W plaza and DJ's furniture came onstream.In the newest plaza Mark's Work Wearhouse and Crabby Joe's restaurant opened up.Now there truly was a Miracle on 10th Street.
      Grey County moves up in Class
    According to Wikipoedia Grey county has about 95,000 people.About half of them live in two towns-Owen Sound and Hanover.Hanover has about six small industries to employ people that use these service centres.One of the big employers in both Hanover and Owen Sound are feed mills.But the majority of customers for both towns comes from the rest of Grey county.The money spent here (and in the south end of Owen Sound) takes care of the rest of both towns.          

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